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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of recent CGTN, NHK, and Radio Taiwan International broadcasts.
Carlos notes:
China, Japan, Taiwan: War of Words on the Shortwave (CGTN, NHK, Radio Taiwan International)
“This was the ninth day this year that temperatures have reached 40 degrees Celsius or higher in Japan, breaking the record for the most days in a year.”
Hiroshima bombing, 80 years later. NHK, 11965 kHz.
As we mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a new picture book has been published, featuring essays and other writings by children who experienced the bombing, with illustrations by Chihiro Iwasaki.
When an emergency occurs, such as an earthquake or tsunami, NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster, switches its programming to exclusively news coverage of the event. Even the broadcaster’s homepage switches to a light version to reduce cell phone battery consumption.
When I received news of the tsunami, it was already after 10 p.m. in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the propagation to Japan at that time is terrible; you couldn’t hear anything!
However, in the morning, after 4 a.m., propagation reopens, and then it was possible to monitor part of NHK’s radio coverage of the tsunami.